HCSSiM is an intensive six-week encounter with college-level mathematics for talented and highly motivated high school students. Participants spend a major portion of each day actively engaged in doing mathematics. HCSSiM students live in the dorms at Hampshire College in Massachusetts, and study and play in its fields, woods, and academic buildings.
Every year since 2003, Action For Nature (AFN), a U.S.-based non-profit, has sought to recognize and reward young people who are taking action to solve the world’s tough environmental problems.
UWC-USA is a global community in the heart of New Mexico, where students from more than 90 countries come together to learn, grow, and exchange ideas. Students engage in conversations about migration, identity, and global challenges, gaining a deep understanding of the world beyond borders. This unique environment fosters a truly international education, where diverse perspectives come together to create connections and meaningful change.
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The Academy of Applied Science’s Young Inventors’ Program is a K-12 Project-based learning program that provides a hands-on STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math) educational enrichment opportunity to budding youth inventors. The Young Inventors’ Program delivers YIP Kits, invention kits for classrooms, to help schools introduce a fun invention curriculum to their learners in the form of a teachable unit, or via a club or afterschool program that culminates in a school Invention Convention event. The flexible program can be started anytime October-February with a school’s winning inventors being identified by March in order to qualify for the Academy’s Regional Invention Convention Competition with potential to go to the Nationals at the U.S. Patent Office in Washington, D.C. The Academy of Applied Science has a partnership called Invention New England that offers an online training course for teachers for professional development or graduate credit to teachers in NH, MA, ME and Vermont.
Gwinnett Alliance for Gifted Education (GAGE) is a non-profit organization committed to the support, encouragement and advancement of gifted, accelerated, and advanced content students. The organization is made up of volunteers, mainly teachers, parents, and community leaders, working together to ensure the quality of gifted education.
As a local affiliate of the Georgia Association of Gifted Children, GAGE researches and develops resources that could meet the unique learning needs of gifted students in Gwinnett County, Georgia.
Bridge UnderGraduate Science (BUGS jr.) is a paid summer research program granting undergraduates and high school students the opportunity to gain hands-on experience of what it is like being in a collaborative research environment and to contribute to improving human condition.
The Junior Duck Stamp Art Contest is the culmination of the Junior Duck Stamp educational program. After studying waterfowl anatomy and habitat, students may express their newfound knowledge by drawing, painting or sketching a picture of an eligible North American waterfowl species. Because students express themselves best in different formats, the conservation message contest gives them an opportunity to use the written word to express their knowledge. Students from across the United States submit their artwork to their state, territory or district competition. The “Best of Show” from each competition is submitted to the Federal Junior Duck Stamp Design Contest, where a panel of judges will select one image to become the next Junior Duck Stamp.
Challenge Math, primarily for gifted elementary students, is designed to hone young students’ mathematical problem-solving and logical reasoning skills.
Dr. Eichenstein has been conducting IQ testing for children, teens and young adults for over 20 years. She recognizes that people with gifted intelligence need to be identified as they often exhibit special needs in terms of meeting their cognitive potential needs. She is located in Los Angeles and has been working with the Mirman School for over 15 years to conduct IQ tests that allow children to apply for admission.